Presentation at the conference Ink to Cloud the European Correspondence of Jacob Burckhardt 9-12 April 2015 Il Palazzone Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Cortona IT entitled "Digital Content, VREs (Virtual Research Environments" and Communities of Practice by Dov Winer

1. Digital content, VREs
(Virtual Research Environments)
and Communities of Practice
Dov Winer
MAKASH – Advancing ICT Applications in
Education, Culture and Science

2. Judaica Europeana Partners

3. *
* YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm

4. ~ millions of
digital objects
Mosaica Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative
Access to Cultural Heritage
Athena
Judaica Europeana
Linked Heritage
DM2E Digital Manuscripts to Europeana
JudaicaLink

5. There are tangible benefits for humanities scholarship from the integration of
contents, communities of practice, and tools/infrastructures.
 Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
 Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
 Tools and Infrastructure
 VRE Virtual Research Environment
 Communities of Practice
Outline

6. Digital Humanities
 Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
 Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
 Tools and Infrastructure
 VRE Virtual Research Environment
 Communities of Practice

7. The scholarship work cycle
From S.Gradmann and J.C. Meister, Digital document and interpretation: re-thinking “text” and scholarship in electronic settings .
Poiesis & Praxis, V5 N2 (2008)

9. Scholarly Primitives
Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities
researchers have in common, and how might our
tools reflect this?
John Unsworth
Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice
King’s College, London, May 13, 2000
Discovering Annotating
Comparing Referring
Sampling Illustrating
Representing

10. Unsworth primitive Bamboo theme of scholarly
practice
OCLC Scholarly Information Activity
Discovery Gathering / Foraging Searching (direct searching, chaining, browsing, probing,
accessing)
Sampling Synthesizing / Filtering Comparing Collecting (gathering, organizing)
Referring Contextualizing Searching (chaining, browsing, probing)
Collecting (organizing)
Cross-cutting (monitoring)
Illustrating
Representing
Comparing
Conceptualizing,
Refining and Critiquing
Reading (scanning, assessing, rereading)
Cross-cutting (note taking, translating)
Writing (assembling)
Collaborating (consulting)
Representing Documenting methods Writing (disseminating)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Discovering Referring
Representing
Managing data Searching (accessing)
Collecting (organizing)
Collaborating (coordinating, consulting)
Annotating Annotating /
documenting
Writing (assembling)
Cross-cutting (note taking)
Illustrating
Representing
Modelling / visualizing Cross-cutting (translating)
Writing (assembling)
Representing Overlapping teaching and research Collaborating (coordinating)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Representing Sharing / dissemination
/ publishing
Writing (disseminating)
Suggested parenthetically Funding No analogue
Common thread Collaborating Writing (co-authoring)
Collaborating (coordinating, networking, consulting)
Referring Citation, credit, peer-review Reading (assessing)
Writing (dissemination)
Collaborating (consulting)
OCLC: Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919
Project Bamboo Scholarly Practice Report
https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/pbamboo/Project+Bamboo+Scholarly+Practice+Report

12. Scholarly primitives: Building institutional
infrastructure for humanities e-Science
Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges
King’s College London, Centre for e-Research
Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2013) 654-661
Scholarly Information Practices in the Online
Environment
Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, Carrie M. Pirmannn
2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC Online Computer Library Center 2009
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919
Scholarly Primitives

13. Common Data Model for
Content Description
 Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
 Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
 Tools and Infrastructure
 VRE Virtual Research Environment
 Communities of Practice

14. Common Data Model

15. Outline

16. Linked Data: structured
data on the Web
David Woood
Marsha Zeidman
Luke Ruth
with
Michael Hausenblas
Manning Publications
MEAP 2013

18. The essence of RDF: the “triple”
Source: “The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data”, by Ian Davis and Tom Heath

19. Who? What? When? Where?
Controlled vocabularies: hubs of
Jewish Knowledge in the
Structured Web

20. Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
The goals of the project
Linking and Populating the
Digital Humanities are to
create and maintain data
integration tools tailored to
digital humanities collections in
order to build a machine-
readable web of facts about
covered domains.

21. Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman

25. http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html

26. Tools and Infrastructure
 Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
 Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
 Tools and Infrastructure
 VRE Virtual Research Environment
 Communities of Practice

27. Prof. Stefan Gradmann
Prof. Christian Bizer

32. Scholarly services
Document Mapping;
Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;
Frequency; Morphological
Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;
Named Entity Identification;
Proxied SEASR Analytics

33. VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Community+Content+
Tools/Infrastructure

34. Outline
From JISC's VRE Programme – supporting collaborative research
Christopher Brown - JISC Digital Infrastructure Team
http://www.slideshare.net/chriscb/jisc-vreresearch-tools-presentation?from_search=2

37. From: Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1

38. Communities
of Practice
Constructionist approach

43. Open system
input output
environment
environment
a viable system is that able to elaborate the inputs so as to build itself
and create value for the environment (outputs)

44. Distinction between Structural Elements
and Dynamic Core
Structural elements
Infrastructure
Technology
Management
Structure
Dynamic Core
High agreement on well defined goals
Congruency between participants and system’s
goals / benefit from the system operation
Good relations among participants
Uri Meri, Coping with crisis in organizations, communities and business,Tel aviv, Cherikower 1999

45. Thank you for your attention!
Dov Winer
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
dov.winer@gmail.com

46. Mapping the Republic of Letters (Stanford)
http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/publications.html
Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-
century Dutch Republic
http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/
Linked Jazz
http://www.linkedjazz.org/52ndStreet/
RelFinder
http://www.visualdataweb.org/relfinder.php